Senior Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 697 722
Rank change year-on-year -27 +25 -79
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 47 65 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 41 56 55
10th Percentile - £49,149 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,219 £55,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £63,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -12.07% +25.37%
75th Percentile £67,968 £76,316 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,875 £82,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +39 26 £62,783 -3.41% 7
North West +15 13 £62,783 +4.64% 6
Yorkshire +72 8 £59,526 -13.12%
South East +15 5 £60,000 -14.29% 8
North East - 5 £62,783 - 1
Midlands +11 4 £115,000 +150.00% 5
South West -25 4 £59,526 - 2
Scotland -62 3 £59,526 -19.03%
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 -
West Midlands +12 2 £115,000 +150.00% 3
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
East of England +17 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £45,000 - 3
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (61.70%) Azure
2 26 (55.32%) DevOps
2 26 (55.32%) Public Cloud
3 22 (46.81%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (44.68%) Python
5 18 (38.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (36.17%) Terraform
6 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
6 17 (36.17%) Finance
6 17 (36.17%) Cloud Security
7 16 (34.04%) AWS
8 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (29.79%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (29.79%) Docker
9 14 (29.79%) PaaS
9 14 (29.79%) GitHub
9 14 (29.79%) GCP
9 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
9 14 (29.79%) Use Case
9 14 (29.79%) Google
9 14 (29.79%) Agile
9 14 (29.79%) Banking
9 14 (29.79%) Roadmaps
9 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
9 14 (29.79%) Product Ownership
10 12 (25.53%) Secrets Management
10 12 (25.53%) PKI
10 12 (25.53%) CA
10 12 (25.53%) CA Single Sign-On

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 29 (61.70%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) AWS
3 14 (29.79%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (29.79%) GCP
3 14 (29.79%) GitHub
3 14 (29.79%) PaaS
4 12 (25.53%) AWS KMS
4 12 (25.53%) Azure Key Vault
4 12 (25.53%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.53%) DNS
2 6 (12.77%) Firewall
3 4 (8.51%) Network Security
3 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (36.17%) Finance
2 14 (29.79%) Banking
3 12 (25.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.26%) Legal
4 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.26%) Retail
4 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) CSS
1 1 (2.13%) Django
1 1 (2.13%) Flask
1 1 (2.13%) HTML
1 1 (2.13%) Jinja
1 1 (2.13%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 26 (55.32%) Public Cloud
2 18 (38.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (29.79%) Product Ownership
4 12 (25.53%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (25.53%) PKI
5 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.38%) Cyber Security Posture
5 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.13%) Cybercrime
7 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Unix
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) DevOps
2 22 (46.81%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (36.17%) Cloud Security
3 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
5 14 (29.79%) Roadmaps
5 14 (29.79%) Use Case
6 12 (25.53%) Coaching
6 12 (25.53%) Identity Management
6 12 (25.53%) Key Management
6 12 (25.53%) Mentoring
6 12 (25.53%) Privileged Identity Management
6 12 (25.53%) Secrets Management
7 9 (19.15%) SIEM
8 5 (10.64%) Information Security
8 5 (10.64%) Penetration Testing
9 4 (8.51%) Application Security
9 4 (8.51%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Python
2 1 (2.13%) C
2 1 (2.13%) C++
2 1 (2.13%) Embedded C
2 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) CISSP
1 4 (8.51%) SANS
2 2 (4.26%) CCNA
2 2 (4.26%) CCNP
2 2 (4.26%) CEH
2 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) GCFA
2 2 (4.26%) GCFE
2 2 (4.26%) GCIA
2 2 (4.26%) GCIH
2 2 (4.26%) GREM
2 2 (4.26%) OSCP
3 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) COBIT
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Docker
2 12 (25.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (36.17%) Terraform
2 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
3 12 (25.53%) CA Single Sign-On
3 12 (25.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.26%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Google
2 12 (25.53%) CA
2 12 (25.53%) CyberArk
2 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (25.53%) ServiceNow